This resource has been broken into two parts to make it easier for you to cut, paste and edit. Please click on the link below to find the other half of this resource.
Edexcel English Language Unseen Fiction Reading | Travel and Journeys Part 2
For Paper One
Fiction and Imaginative Writing
Introduction
From the Edexcel specification
‘Students should read selections from a range of high-quality, challenging prose fiction, in preparation for responding to an unseen 19th-century prose fiction extract in the examination. They should be able to read substantial pieces of writing (extended texts) that make significant demands on them in terms of content, structure and the quality of language. Throughout the qualification, students should develop the skills of inference, analysis and evaluation’.
‘Students should read a variety of prose fiction from a range of genres and cultures. Students should use what they have learned about the writer’s craft in their reading of fiction to inspire and influence their own imaginative writing’.
Students should:
- read and understand a range of prose fiction, including unseen texts.
- critical reading and comprehension: identify and interpret themes, ideas and information in a range of literature and other high-quality writing; read in different ways for different purposes, and evaluate the usefulness, relevance and presentation of content for these purposes; draw inferences and justify these with evidence; support a point of view by referring to evidence within the text; reflect critically and evaluatively on text, use the context of the text and draw on knowledge and skills gained from wider reading; recognise the possibility of different responses to a text.
- summary: identify the main theme or themes; summarise ideas and information from a single text.
- evaluation of a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structural features: explain and illustrate how vocabulary and...
